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Motorola is rebooting the iconic Razr flip phone as a Foldable 6.2-inch smartphone with a foldable display that gives the Lenovo-owned brand a unique selling point against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.’s finest.The new device reprises the Motorola Razr name and looks like a modernized version of the original. It costs $1,499 and will be available for pre-order in December in Europe and as a Verizon exclusive in the U.S., ahead of its retail arrival in January. For Lenovo Group Ltd., which has a tiny fraction of the global smartphone market, it's an effort to build brand awareness in the U.S. via a halo device.Razr is in some of its specifications: it has a small battery at 2,510mAh and runs the older Android 9 Pie operating system on Qualcomm’s sub-flagship Snapdragon 710 chip. It lacks the 5G option and bountiful memory of its rivals. Aside from the U.S. and Europe, it’ll also be on sale in Latin America, Asia and Australia.
When the RAZR is closed, it's very nearly the same thickness as the original: about 14mm. You'll find a big hump up front housing a 16-megapixel main camera and a 2.7-inch glass OLED display for quick interactions (more on those later), while the back features a textured, grippy finish. It's honestly not much to look at all folded up like this, but that's beside the point: The RAZR took up very little space when I slid it into my pocket, and it's even small enough to fit into the very tiny pants pockets women have to deal with.
RAZR, and the phone comes with one of the company's 15W TurboChargers for quick refueling sessions.
When it is open, this thing looks like a proper RAZR, right down to the hefty chin where the phone's fingerprint sensor, cellular antennas, USB-C port and surprisingly loud four-speaker array all live. You probably won't be spending much time marveling at that throwback design flourish when there's a 6.2-inch, 21:9 screen sitting in front of you. It's a bright, punchy panel that handles widescreen videos especially well, but it's not nearly as crisp as screens on other phones -- the resolution tops out at just 2,142x876. That's just one of many compromises Motorola had to make here, but we'll get to the rest in a bit.
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